Financial literacy and numerical ability: Keys to better mortgage outcomes

While mortgage credit expansion had lead to a rapid increase of home ownership in the US, the reversal of home prices beginning in 2006 resulted in a substantial increase in mortgage delinquencies and an explosion in outright defaults. Its devastating impact on the associated mortgage backed securit...

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spelling sg-smu-ink.pers-13102017-03-22T05:40:32Z Financial literacy and numerical ability: Keys to better mortgage outcomes Singapore Management University While mortgage credit expansion had lead to a rapid increase of home ownership in the US, the reversal of home prices beginning in 2006 resulted in a substantial increase in mortgage delinquencies and an explosion in outright defaults. Its devastating impact on the associated mortgage backed securities led the US and the world to its worst financial and macroeconomic crisis since the Great Depression, with its deleterious effects still felt today. 2012-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/pers/306 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1310&context=pers http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Perspectives@SMU eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Corporate Finance Finance and Financial Management
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Financial literacy and numerical ability: Keys to better mortgage outcomes
description While mortgage credit expansion had lead to a rapid increase of home ownership in the US, the reversal of home prices beginning in 2006 resulted in a substantial increase in mortgage delinquencies and an explosion in outright defaults. Its devastating impact on the associated mortgage backed securities led the US and the world to its worst financial and macroeconomic crisis since the Great Depression, with its deleterious effects still felt today.
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